00:00What is your favourite memory from playing Zazu in The Lion King?
00:03That's a good question.
00:05I think it was singing, I Just Can't Wait To Be King.
00:08I finished singing and they said, that sounded great.
00:11And I said, that sounds like Hollywood bullshit.
00:14And they did not correct me.
00:16Hi there, I'm John Oliver and this is Fishing For Answers.
00:20Hence the goldfish bowl.
00:21They could have gone with a fishing rod, but this seemed easier.
00:32Here we go.
00:33Feels like someone's about to win a very disappointing prize.
00:36Name one thing you would do this season if you had an unlimited budget.
00:40Honestly, we like to kind of live our daily lives with the show like we have an unlimited budget.
00:45Budgets are a state of mind.
00:46That's how Game of Thrones ran their show, right?
00:49Can you give your best impression of how you think Queen Elizabeth II reacted to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
00:54leaving the monarchy?
00:55The Queen reacts to nothing with emotion of any kind.
00:58She'll have reacted to that the way she reacted to anything like this.
01:03That's the face that she reacted when Britain hosted the Olympics.
01:07On her wedding day.
01:09Although that was appropriate.
01:12When Princess Diana died.
01:14So yeah, Prince Harry and Meghan leaving.
01:17That's the whole point with the Queen.
01:19You can't project how she's feeling.
01:21I mean, it seems like a good decision to me.
01:23If you think of them as human beings and you think about the situation that they're in,
01:27removing themselves from that emotionally and physically as far as possible seems like the right thing to do.
01:35If you were stuck on an elevator with Boris Johnson, what would you say to him?
01:40I would wait for it to go quiet.
01:43I'd wait for the doors to close.
01:45I'd clear my throat.
01:47And I'd say, fuck off Boris.
01:51If you could trade places with any political figure for a day, who would it be and what would you
01:55do?
01:55I would trade places with Boris Johnson and I would walk straight into the ocean.
02:04Who was your first celebrity crush?
02:08My very first one.
02:11That is a good question.
02:13It might have been Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh.
02:16I think I just liked his completely defeatist attitude to life.
02:21So it wasn't necessarily a sexual thing, although it wasn't 100% unsexual.
02:25I think it was more just, I like the colour of this donkey's jib.
02:28I like the way he handles his business.
02:30And that is bringing everyone else's mood down by at least 20 degrees.
02:35What is the one question you would ask at a 2020 presidential debate?
02:40I think it would just be, how many of these are there going to be?
02:43Does it feel like there is too many?
02:45And bear in mind that the answer to that second question is yes.
02:48If we ask your writers room to describe you, what do you think they would say?
02:54I really don't want to know.
02:56Our writers are very, very funny.
02:58They can be cuttingly perceptive.
03:01I would never want to be on the receiving end of it.
03:04I have a horrible feeling I would almost cry, which to a British person is basically crying.
03:10We're done.
03:15To be continued...
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